RECRUITS FOR HOME GUARD

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 299, 19 December 1941, Page 4

RECRUITS FOR HOME GUARD

WANGANUI WANTS 500 “EMERGENT Y IS WITH I S,” SAY? GROTF DIRECTOR. “The emergency is with us and the danger imminent and every man who is able should be trained for active defence. It is not sufficient to-day for a man to be satisfied that he is doing a useful .iob. It is the duty of every man of spirit to satisfy himself that the service he is giving cannot be done by someone less physically fit than himself. He must serve where his efforts are most needed in the emergency that is facing us.” This statement was made yesterday by Lieut.-Colonel R. D. Hardie. D. 5.0.. group director of the Home Guard in Wanganui, in appealing for 500 recruits lo Ihe Guard. Men were wanted in Aramoho. Wanganui East, Gonville. Castlecliff, and the Wanganui Central area, he said. One hundred recruits were wanted for the youths' company <l6-18 years). For the Home Guard to be below strength at a time like this, when there were so many able to fill the ranks, was a weakness that might prove disastrous, he added. It would be too late once the enemy appeared at the gates to decide the need for one's personal service. Training was necessary now. Until the threat of hostile action appeared imminent or invasion had actually occurred, full time service was not required and guardsmen would not be called up for duty anywhere outside the defence of their own areas.